Big Water is a town in Kane County, Utah, United States. Information on Big Water boat and jet ski rentals, waverunners, PWC personal watercraft, and sea doo rentals. Big Waters population was 417 at the 2000 census, a modest increase over the 1990 figure of 326. It is located 17 miles north of Page, Arizona on US-89 near Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam. It was originally called Glen Canyon City and housed workers who built the dam in the 1950s. Big Water also made news in 1986, when the mayor Alex Joseph and the city council left the Republican Party to join the Libertarian Party. We have ski and wakeboard boat rentals and guided charters on Lake Powell.